How to Install Git and Setup Git Account in RHEL, CentOS and Fedora

For newbies, Git is a free and open source, fast and distributed version control system (VCS), which by design is based on speed, efficient performance and data integrity to support small-scale to extensive software development projects.

Git is a software repository that allows you to keep a track of your software changes, revert to previous version and create another versions of files and directories.

Git is written in C, with a mix of Perl and a variety of shell scripts, it’s primarily intended to run on the Linux kernel and has a number of remarkable features as listed below:

Easy to learn

It is fast and most of its operations are carried out locally, in addition, this offers it a tremendous speed on centralized systems that need to communicate with remote servers.

Highly efficient

Supports data integrity checks

Enables cheap local branching

Offers a convenient staging area

It also maintains multiple work-flows together with many others

In this how-to guide, we shall move through the necessary steps of installing Git on CentOS/RHEL 7/6 and Fedora 20-24 Linux distributions along with how to configure Git so that you can start participating right away..

Install Git Using Yum

We shall install Git from the system default repositories, and make sure that your system is up-to-date with the latest version of packages by running the YUM package manager update command below:

# yum update

Next, install Git by typing the following command:

# yum install git

After git successfully installed, you can issue the following command to display the version of Git installed:

# git --version

Check Git Installed Version

Important: Installing Git from default repositories will give you older version. If you looking to have a most recent version of Git, consider compiling from source using following instructions.

Install Git from Source

Before you begin, first you need to install required software dependencies from the default repositories, along with the utilities that needed to build a binary from source:

Conclusion

In this simple tutorial, we have looked at how to install Git on your Linux system as well as configuring it. I believe the instructions are easy to follow, however, to get in touch with us for any questions or suggestions you can make use of the reaction section below.

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And as an aside, Git isn’t in any of RHEL Desktop Repos. I was doing a proof of concept for RHEL 7 Desktop and you cannot install git from the repos directly. Just wanted to put that here for anyone else doing the same thing.

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